On the same day that a tragic event happened at the Boston marathon, another tragedy on the other side of the world occurred. US airplanes in Afghanistan came under anti-aircraft fire and responded with close air support bombings… but one of the bombs missed and hit a wedding party killing 30 people and wounding 120 more.… read more “USA Bomb Yesterday Kills 30”
Author: Joel Gross
Joel Gross is the CEO of Coalition Technologies.
Preventable Deaths
It seems to me that media sensationalism makes too big a deal out of most terrorist attacks in America. Of course an attack on the Boston marathon is extremely high profile and scary so it receives a lot of coverage.
I think we have a lot of preventable problems that aren’t as exciting as terrorism but are far more deadly.… read more “Preventable Deaths”
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Offensive Jokes You Can Never Repeat To Anyone
I found a fun thread on Reddit with jokes that you should never repeat to anyone. Here are a few that are less offensive (and yes, I realize these are all still highly offensive!):
- Why did Princess Di cross the road?” She wasn’t wearing her seatbelt
- How do you know Princess Di had dandruff? When she crashed, they found her Head & Shoulders on the dashboard…
- What do you call a train full of toffee?
Real Life as an MMORPG
Around 3 years ago, I wrote a blog post about World of Warcraft vs Real Life. I have been thinking about this topic of real life as an mmorpg (massively multiplayer online role playing game for those of you non-nerds) more recently.
It’s been roughly 6 years now since I played serious computer games and got started with “Real Life”.… read more “Real Life as an MMORPG”
What Are Your Friends Professions?
A very important question to ask yourself is what are the professions of your friends? Study after study has shown that who your friends are, what they do for a living, and what their habits are will have an enormous influence over you and your behaviors.
Here is a list of some of my friends professions:
- Law firm owner
- High end design firm owner
- Tutoring firm owner
- Google account executive
- Finance professional
- Hippy semi-pro skier
- Struggling Actor
- Waitress
- Maid service owner
- International business consultant
- Iranian pastry shop owners son
- CFO / accountant
- COO / recruiter
- Sales Director
- Drunk oil rigger worker
- Aerospace engineer
- F-16 Fighter pilot
- Dentist
- Affiliate website entrepreneur
- Financial marketing exec
- Nursing services firm owners son
Who are your friends and what are their professions?… read more “What Are Your Friends Professions?”
Recursive Functions in Python
I spent the weekend learning more about Python on Udacity.com. I went through Unit 6 which was all about recursive procedures in Python.
A recursive function is basically a function that calls itself. An example of this would be:
def factorial(n):
if n == 0:
return 1
else:
return n * factorial(n - 1)
Recursion is great because it allows you to write code that is much simpler and cleaner than if you had to write the same code using if/while procedures.
Buy Bitcoins
This article makes me want to buy bit coins.
Jurassic Park IMAX 3D
I just saw Jurassic Park IMAX 3D and loved it. The movie conversion from 2d to 3d was very thorough and well done. Made a great old movie fun and new again. Go see it!
Frustrating Negotiations
I have been involved in a number of very frustrating negotiations lately:
- I worked with a business to sublease their office space and provided forward in the best intents. They ended up pulling the rug out from under me when a bigger tenant came by… but first they led me on for a month and a half.